Etihad Cargo is looking to take advantage of additional belly capacity added for the summer season.
Etihad will add 100 more passenger flights to its summer schedule, including 23 weekly flights to eight new destinations and 77 flights to existing destinations.
The new routes include Antalya, Bali, Al-Qassim (Saudi Arabia), Jaipur, Malaga, Mykonos, Nice, and Santorini.
Highlighting its European additions, Etihad Cargo announced that from June 2, the carrier added three weekly passenger flights to Malaga and two weekly flights to Nice.
In addition to increasing flights to Athens to 14 per week, two flights to Greece’s capital will operate via Mykonos, and two flights will operate via Santorini.
The airline will also launch a new route to Antalya with three weekly flights and increase weekly flights to Istanbul from 10 to 14 starting July 22.
“Etihad Cargo’s customers will also benefit from increased cargo capacity for Dublin, with three more flights being offered from July 23, bringing the total number of flights to the Republic of Ireland’s capital to ten per week,” the company stated.
For the Middle East, there are three passenger flights to Al-Qassim in Saudi Arabia, a new destination for the carrier. The airline will also increase frequencies to Middle Eastern destinations by 32 flights per week.
“This includes seven additional flights to Amman, bringing the total to 14 per week; seven more flights to Kuwait, bringing the total to 28 per week; two more flights to Bahrain, Beirut, and Muscat; five more flights to Doha; and by mid-July, flights to Cairo will have increased to 28 per week,” the carrier stated.
The carrier’s India network will grow to include four weekly flights to the new destination, Jaipur.
Following the launch of Thiruvananthapuram to the carrier’s 2023 winter schedule, weekly flights will increase from seven to ten per week in response to rising demand.
Two new flights to Ahmedabad will bring the weekly total to 17, three new flights to Bengaluru will bring the weekly total to 17, and flights to Kolkata will increase by one to eight per week.
In Asia, the airline will also launch a new route with four weekly flights to Bali.
“Additional belly hold capacity will also be offered via an extra weekly flight to Bangkok, bringing the total to 18; eleven more flights to Colombo, bringing the total to 27; three more flights to Karachi, bringing the total to 17; and four more flights to Seoul, bringing the total to 11,” the carrier explained.